Yesterday was my kids last day of school. After school we threw our confetti (made from the torn off paper chains we used to count the days until the end of the school year) and then hung out for a bit. I looked at report cards and sorted through backpacks. After a short while, my 11 year old begged me to take her to her friend's house. She packed up her bag for her sleepover and I dropped her off. For some reason, when my daughter decided to sleep over at her friend's house I gave up on my plan to take the kids out to lunch on their last day of school. When we were all in the car after dropping her off at her friend's house I realized that was dumb because why couldn't I just take the rest of the kids out to lunch? I wasn't hungry because I had already had a black bean burger at home, but it was great to sit and talk to my kids while they ate.
We went out to lunch and talked about the last day of school, what the kids were excited for during the summer, and all kinds of other things. When we got home, we brought Maya outside with us. My 9 year old son and I worked on teaching her how to go down the stairs on the front porch. She didn't like it much and I think her plan is just not to go up anymore. She hasn't gone up the stairs since then, so we will see what happens.
I have said it before, but let me say it here before I say what I am going to say. All 4 of my kids are very well behaved. They play together very nicely and rarely fight. Quite often when all 4 of them are playing, I have no idea what to do because I am lonely. I don't fit in their game or whatever, so I just kind of hang out and listen. My point is, there is never a problem when they play. However, when one child is gone, any child, things are so much more calm. It really doesn't matter which child...at first I thought maybe it was that one particular child was louder or something but it really doesn't matter which one is gone, they play so much calmer and are so much more quiet and peaceful. Even outside it was about one million times more quiet than normal. It doesn't make any sense to me since they almost always play nicely when they are all here. I do miss my daughter today though!
Yesterday I made black bean burgers again for dinner. When I made them the first time, we had a bunch of leftovers. When they were gone, I made more. Since I first made them, I have been eating about one a day. Last night, to go with them I made the yummiest corn ever. Does anyone think it will be a problem if I continue to live almost solely on the black bean burgers and now add the corn too? It will be fine to only eat black bean burgers and corn for the rest of my life, right?
Tomorrow my son has an appointment with his tummy doctor. His tummy has been much better lately, but he has been having horrible headaches. When he first was diagnosed with Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome, the doctor mentioned that a lot of kids with it end up having migraines when they get a little older. Well, he's a little older and the way he has described his headaches sound a lot like migraines to me. It will be nice to talk to his doctor about what we can do to help him with this. After that appointment, we will drop the kids off at my husband's parents house for the weekend. Since I have my CT appointment on Monday, they will come home Monday night. What we didn't think through when we got Maya is that even when the kids are gone, one of us still has to get up with her. We have no definite plans for the weekend yet but are talking about going to the gambling boats with some friends. That sounds like a lot of fun, so I hope it works out!
Friday, June 05, 2009
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That is really interesting about your kids, and it made me feel kind of sad that sometimes you feel "left out" when they are doing their thing. It strikes me, too, how having grown up as an only child probably made/makes my relationship with my parents a really unique one, although I couldn't tell you right now specifically why or how.
wafelenbak-Some days you can have my puppy. I'm kidding of course but she is a lot of work sometimes!
I think a lot of parents dream of their kids leaving them out so they can get things done. I think it's nice that my kids do let me have time to do other things if I want/need to but I miss when they were smaller and always wanted me around them. I'm not a kid so even when I try to play with them now, they have different ideas of what would be fun. They do still hang out with me, but it is definitely different. I miss the baby days for sure! Good thing we have a needy puppy!
I sometimes think if I had an only child they would have so many advantages. I suppose there are good things and not so good about both lots of kids and only one. I just know I am often jealous of my friends who have one child. I have to try and divide my time between 4 kids and make sure each of them get enough of me and enough time alone with me. I think I do a pretty good job, but I feel sort of exhausted sometimes trying to balance it out. If I only had one kid, I would definitely have more quality time to give.
I think it all depends on the parent though because I am also sure there are parents of only children that aren't as involved with their children as yours were with you and I try to be with mine.
I am 6 years older than my brother so when I was really little I was sort of an only child. My parents aren't really "kid" people so I had a lot of time alone. I guess that's why I am fine being alone now too. I mean I'd rather be with other people, but I can also occupy myself pretty well too. I guess childhood is all what you make of it right? What seems good to one person may seem like a nightmare to another.
And this is really long and all over the place so I will stop now.
Maya has little legs so maybe it scares her to go down because it's hard to know if she will land? I mean, I am a human with short legs and I am afraid of going down stairs. Of course, I still go but then again, I am human. :-)
Do you have a recipe for these black bean burgers you speak of?
i've got it... dogapult.
There is one kid in my house, who if he is gone, the whole house is quieter. And I could tell you which kid. And as soon as he walks back in the door the house explodes back into chaos.
My kids are so much quieter when one of them is away. I used to joke that it was because the other two weren't quite sure what happened to the missing one and were afraid they might be next.
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